Ray Henry wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 14:19 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote: > >> Someone either on Ubuntu mail group or EMC can't remember at the moment >> gave me this link to puppy Linux install with Emc looks pretty complex >> but may be doable for me. Anyway even If I don't use this box the one I >> do use won't likely be that much faster and newer. I don't want to use >> the box for anything but emc as I have a fast box in the house that is >> set up for video editing so it's pretty hot stuff or was 3 years ago. I >> would like to use ubuntu, maybe pull out some of the unneeded programs >> for a little more space. See about that!! >> Doug >> >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Emc_Puppy >> > > The problem really isn't with space or the quantity of EMC2 or other > software that's laying around on a PC. Sure in a traditional embedded > system you want to minimize the software footprint but that doesn't > really save computing time nor does it translate to increased EMC2 > ability. That is done mostly for cost. > > You didn't say whether you were thinking of running steppers or servos > or sim. JonE ran a servo system for years on a 100 MHz PC and an ISA > Servo-To-Go card and was completely satisfied with the results. I ran > steppers on an overclocked Gateway 166 for quite a while but I wasn't > asking for many steps per second -- something less than 4k. Step rate > can be really limited by the speed of these older boxes. > > The only current complete releases are the Ubuntu. Short of that you > will have to roll your own if you want current abilities. I do roll my > own but I don't recommend it for a first time. Since you've got a fast > box in the house, try downloaded and burning the 6.06 disk and see if it > will boot that E-Machines PC. If not, boot that fast box with it and > play. That costs you nothing. > > HTH > > Rayh > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > It will likely be a while before I am really ready to tackle this. I am presently doing video on my machine and will have to finish that up before starting with EMC. I have a small 9inch lathe and a table top mill that I built from a fairly heavy drill press. With proper bearings and beefing up it Works pretty good. I want to set up cnc on both. I am not at all interested in high speed 25 in. a minute would suit me just fine for what I want to do. For now its mostly trying to get a box up and running to play with and gain some know how. I will load emc on my new computer for that but without a machine on it. I am retired and ran nc and cnc and programed in G cods a fair amount but it's been over 10 years ago. Learning comes slow now days so I need time to get my head around it all again. Thanks much Guys, Doug
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